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Playedforkeeps Since: Oct, 2010
#1: Jul 3rd 2011 at 5:50:05 AM

As much as I never saw the show, I decided to look it up on here and I found something that made me puzzled.

Ruined Forever: Aside from the fans of the original Ducktales as well as the comics from Carl Barks. It was rumored that Carl Barks had a massive disliking to the show.

Judging by some screenshots of the show that I've seen, this does look like something Mr.Barks wouldn't approve of. But did he ever admitted into hating this? If my math is correct, this was out when he was still alive.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#2: Jul 3rd 2011 at 9:19:56 AM

That's something that confuses me too.

Is the city called Duckburg? If so, people have more of a right to complain. If not, they do not, because I never thought it had ANYTHING TO DO WITH DUCKTALES EVER EVER!

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#3: Jul 3rd 2011 at 9:35:36 AM

I had no problems with it being an Alternate Continuity, that'd be like bashing Rescue Rangers for contradicting original Chip and Dale's 'canon'. The problem with the show was it was bland and mediocre on its own merits.

However, it still has my favorite version of Daisy to this day.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#4: Jul 3rd 2011 at 10:10:41 AM

That was the first time Tress Mac Neille voiced Daisy, and now she voices were all the time.

Theoriginalblader Sloving cases one by one from Downtown Since: Feb, 2011
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#5: Jul 3rd 2011 at 10:45:00 AM

I cannot find anything regarding on what Carl Barks said, but I have seen a few episodes of Quack pack so I'm going to say that Carl wont be amused by this. The show itself has so many problems. The nephews can speak normally and they made it too radical for anyone's taste. Shota. the show was set in duckberg but the only ducks were Donald, the nephews, and Daisy. The rest of the population was with humans(Which I'm questioning on. I do know that some of the original Donald Duck shorts had humans in them). I am also questioning why they made Daisy sexy in this, did they do this just to get the furries attention into watching Disney?

The fact being that this is a good example of Executive Meddling. The people who pitched this show to Disney wanted it as a true sequel to Ducktales. Which a bit of it was on the Donald Duck page before it was removed. Which had Donald returning from the navy and Scrooge gives him the full charge of his business. At the same time has to deal with Daisy and the nephews. Disney however put the gun on the people to make it more hip and trendy. I cant help but feel that the people hated what they were trying to make. So did Carl Barks hated this? I bet he did, but didnt want an uproar to happen at Disney.

I can only wonder how this would have done if Disney actually allowed what the people wanted this show to be.

edited 3rd Jul '11 10:47:08 AM by Theoriginalblader

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#6: Jul 3rd 2011 at 12:33:45 PM

[up] It'd probably have been a Slice of Life version of Darkwing Duck, in the sense of being an executive-manded sequel with enough creative input to make it work.

Or at the very least, something like ''Goof Troop'. Despite ist naysayers, I've never thought GT was bad, although the character of Goofy lends himself more to that kind of series than Donald's.

nabaduco Since: Oct, 2010
#7: Jul 3rd 2011 at 2:03:07 PM

Goof Troop was actually kind of nice.

That quack stuff was just awful. Awful. It is like they used the characters I loved so much when young to read a script from one of the Disney channel live action sitcoms that I hate so much.

NapoleonDeCheese Since: Oct, 2010
#8: Jul 3rd 2011 at 2:12:13 PM

It didn't help the morals were so Anvilicious they actually turned you off the whole point.

Richie Since: Sep, 2009
#9: Jul 3rd 2011 at 4:16:42 PM

Carl Barks didn't have a soft spot for Duck Tales itself; with that in mind, it's not much of a stretch to think he'd have hated that mess of a show that was Quack Pack.

As pointed out on this thread, the initial concept was to make the series a true sequel to Duck Tales; Don comes back from the navy, and has to learn how to take care of Scrooge's empire, not to mention his nephews, and rekindle his relationship with Daisy. Carl Barks' Donald's stories would have been adapted for the show, the way some Scrooge's comics paved the road for a bunch of Duck Tales episodes. (Btw, it's still on the Donald Duck page, just on the Trivia section)

If you want to read about it in detail, check out this old post by Disney Comics Forum's member WB. I assure you, completely worth it.

For all the flaws Quack Pack had, I can agree that its depiction of Daisy gave her the most interesting and fleshed-out persona she's ever had anywhere, be it animation or comics. Too bad the nephews' personalities were sent to screw themselves in favor of bland Totally Radical clichés, and Donald himself lost not only his legendary temper, but several brain cells as well.

I still long for an animated Duck series that is more loyal to Carl Barks' comics. You could also throw Don Rosa's stories later on its run, and some of the most memorable tales done by other artists. Done well, it could completely revitalize American interest on Donald, Scrooge, the nephews and the rest of Duckburg's citizens, and end up an instant classic.I am well aware that there's not a chance I'll see it happen on my lifetime, though...Mainly because, well, what on Duck-Earth could be done about Don's animated voice!? Betray tradition and give him a completely understandable human voice? Give him a more understandable one that nonetheless retains its quacky charm, a là nephews on Duck Tales? Just broadcast the series with subtitles? ARGH....

edited 3rd Jul '11 4:22:54 PM by Richie

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#10: Jul 3rd 2011 at 4:25:25 PM

I just question why any adaptation of Donald Duck's cartoons or any of his relatives all need to be "based on Carl Bark's stories".

Richie Since: Sep, 2009
#11: Jul 3rd 2011 at 5:14:47 PM

It's not that it "needs" to. It's just that it would be amazing if it happened, what with the quality storytelling already available there, and the benefits some stories would get from being animated. There's an entire world of top-notch writing and visuals out there that could make an absolutely smashing TV series.

But if you make something from new ground, PLEASE don't pull another Quack Pack, and take the characters seriously. Thank you and goodnight.

Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#12: Jul 3rd 2011 at 11:55:52 PM

Don't know if Barks had any feelings at all for Quack Pack, but, while Disney owns the characters and can do whatever the heck they want to with them, imagine if you'd pretty much created a whole universe of chracters and spent something like 60 years of your life developing them and telling stories about them, only to see everything you'd done tossed out the window and made into Quack Pack. From what I've read about Barks, he had enough of a sense of his own worth to be philophical about it, but I mean, come on...Quack Pack...

Theoriginalblader Sloving cases one by one from Downtown Since: Feb, 2011
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#13: Jul 4th 2011 at 7:23:20 PM

[up]x2 I can only assume its for the nostalgia. I do remember hearing things about Ducktales(the cartoon) having things that werent in the original barks stories. Although, I've always pictured that Disney should make Direct-to-video films based on Bark's stories. Heck they can even do a DTV film of Rosa's Life and Times of Scrooge Mcduck. I'd pay for that to happen, it would even give Disney some comepetition agaisnt DC and Marvel over their animated features on the superheroes.

Hey Richie, that was a very interesting read.

Playedforkeeps Since: Oct, 2010
#14: Jul 5th 2011 at 10:21:59 AM

[up]DTV films of Ducktales, that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

Nyarly Das kann doch nicht sein! from Saksa Since: Feb, 2012
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#15: Jul 7th 2011 at 4:33:45 AM

I never watched much of it and had barely any interest in it even before it came out. Not even my younger, easier to impress self (who liked The Wacky World Of Tex Avery, for the record) could get hooked on it. However, there is one thing, I have to give it credit for:

However, it still has my favorite version of Daisy to this day.
This. Quack Pack Daisy was the first Daisy, I actually "felt" something for. Before, Daisy was absolutely uninteresting, barely a character. I would even say that she was little more than a plot device at best (the same goes for Minnie Mouse, actually). QP, as bad as it was, was the first show to make an actual character out of her.

edited 7th Jul '11 4:33:59 AM by Nyarly

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DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#16: Jul 7th 2011 at 5:30:14 AM

To be honest, I doubt Carl Barks cared much about the tone or content of Duck Tales and Quack Pack. He always struck me as a rather open-minded man.

Arilou Taller than Zim from Quasispace Since: Jan, 2001
Taller than Zim
#17: Jul 7th 2011 at 6:18:57 AM

I think people are really confusing themselves. For starters, Barks didn't invent Donald Duck, or the nephews. There's been innumerable stories featuring the characters, and the comics aren't in any kindoc ontinuity with each other in the first place. (Don Rosa excepted) they're just stories featuring vaguely similar characters. Duck Tales is as much a deviation for the comics as Quack Pack was, which still doesen't make any sense since there's no canon to deviate from.

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kyun Since: Dec, 2010
#18: Jul 7th 2011 at 7:19:53 AM

[up]Th-Y—THAT'S EXACTLY WHY I AM SO CONFUSED BY THIS "CARL BARKS HATING ON QUACK PACK" BUSINESS!

Gray64 Since: Dec, 1969
#19: Jul 7th 2011 at 7:40:57 PM

[up][up]You're right, of course, but Barks is traditionally considered to have told the very BEST of the Donald Duck/Nephews stories. Your opinion may be different, of course, but there you are. And he did in fact create Uncle Scrooge, the Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, etc. Duck Tales was intended to be an animated homage to his work, even if it did deviate considerable from his characterizations from time to time. You're quite right, though, in that Quack Pack had nothing to do with any previously published iteration of the characters.

Grey-ghost Since: May, 2021
#20: Feb 26th 2024 at 12:05:47 PM

Do we know what any of the comic creators thought about the show? What did the makers of the show think of the show? (I thought the show was okay of what I saw.)

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